The following components are new as part of Operations Manager 2007 R2 ACS functionality:

Component

Description

ACS Management Packs

The ACS management packs provide the definitions of the audit data to be monitored.

Cross Platform Parsing and Security Event Log Write Action Module

The Cross Platform Parsing and Security Event Log Write Action module parses the audit data from each managed UNIX-based and Linux-based computer and writes the information to the Windows Security Event log.

ACS Event Schema with UNIX Extensions

The ACS Collector schema is extended to support the additional content and formatting of audit data sent by UNIX-based and Linux-based computers.

Windows-based computers are configured for audit collection. The ACS Forwarder moves the audit data to the Windows Security Event log (WSEL). The ACS Collector then collects the audit data and copies it into the ACS database.

In Cross Platform ACS, the ACS management packs and the Cross Platform Log File Data Source module write the event data into the WSEL. The ACS Collector, now extended with the ACS event schema, collects the audit data and copies the information into the ACS database.